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You can use this function to define meanings in Business Context Viewer (BCV). Meanings describe the content of a field of a search connector, query, and query view. The system uses the customer-defined meanings to link these objects together. The output fields with a specific meaning can serve as input fields for another query view with the same meaning. You can define meanings at the level of search connector, or query.

You use the defined meanings at the setup of the input and output fields of the search connector. When you set up the fields of a query, the meanings of the fields of the search connector assigned to the query are taken over by the system. You can overwrite the meanings if necessary. For more information about setting up search connectors, see Definition of Search Connectors.

The system uses meanings to create branches of drill-downs as well. The query displayed on the user interface offers a set of meanings in its query output table. All possible drill-downs that use these meanings as input are available based on these meanings.

Prerequisites

You can define a new meaning if the following applies:

  • You have the necessary authorizations, which are granted to you in one of the following ways:

    • In the Role Maintenance (PFCG) transaction, you are assigned to the BCV Administrator (SAP_BCV_ADMIN) role.

    • On the SAP NetWeaver Portal, you are assigned to the BCV Administrator (com.sap.pct.bs_fnd.BCV_ADMIN) role.

Features

Depending on the application using BCV, you may find a set of predefined meanings in your system. For more information, see Business Content for Business Context Viewer.

If you want to enhance the side panel with your own objects that use meanings different from the predefined ones, you can do so without being forced to change your applications source code, using runtime authoring for tag repository. For more information, see Configuring Tag Repository at Runtime.

Activities

You can define meanings in the following ways:

  • In the configuration center, choose Define Meanings.

  • To define meanings in Customizing, choose   Cross-Application Components   Processes and Tools for Enterprise Applications   Business Context Viewer   Foundation, Monitoring   Define Meanings  .

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    For more information about the settings of individual fields, see the field help and input help texts.

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Using the configuration center is the recommended approach to making configuration settings in BCV. You should use Customizing only in exceptional cases. For more information, see Configuration Center.

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